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Barbara Bush Googles
Spotted via Google Blogoscoped, former US first lady Barbara Bush quipping to a college graduating class that "I can Google with the best of…
Forget Desktop Search — Tag Your Content With Longhorn
While Apple’s touting its bundled desktop search as a leading feature of its new OS, Microsoft is downplaying the idea that many once had…
New Apple OS Out With Bundled “Spotlight” Desktop Search
The new Apple operating system is out, "Tiger" OS X 10.4, featuring an integrated desktop search called "Spotlight" as a leading feature. Product Review:…
Gigablast Gets Bigger and Adds Access to ODP
Over the weekend, Gigablast increased their total page count about 4 million pages from 1.5 billion pages to 1.504 billion pages. I also noticed…
Search: A Part Of Our Lives
How “search” is redefining the Web and our lives from the Seattle Times has a nice look at how search engines developed into…
Newspapers & Yellow Pages Selling For Search Engines
Ad Agents for the Search Engines from the New York Times looks at how newspapers and yellow pages are helping small businesses get online…
Search Campaign On Hold, But Conversions Keep Happening!
Search Advertising and Conversion Lag Times from Fredrick Marckini at ClickZ looks at how a halted campaign still kept racking up conversions — and…
Yahoo and Local Directory Provider Dex Media Announce Partnership
Dex Media, the official provider of yellow and white page directories for Qwest Communications in 14 states, is announcing a deal with Yahoo that…
New Services Coming to Yahoo 360; Localized Versions of 360 Planned
Paul Brody, director of community products at Yahoo, tells the IDG News Service that new features are in the works for Yahoo 360, Yahoo’s…
Seattle Times On MSN’s Road To Finding Search
Seattle Times technology reporter, Kim Peterson, offers an in-depth review and history Microsoft’s search efforts in the article: Microsoft learns to crawl.
Clusty and Indeed.com Partner to Offer New Service
The new and impressive job listings metasearch database, Indeed.com and Clusty, the metasearch engine offering dynamic clustering of results from Vivisimo that debuted last…
Picsearch Images Come to Lycos
Picsearch, the Stockholm-based provider of image search results to several engines including Ask Jeeves MSN Search have just announced a deal with Lycos to…
Searching for that Perfect Gift
Shopping search engines are great for finding just the right gift for special occasions—if you know what you’re looking for. If you’re still clueless…
Searching for a Mother’s Day Gift
Wondering what to get Mom on her upcoming special day? A number of online tools can help you find a gift that's tailored to…
Search Your Gmail with Google Desktop Search
If you’ve been wanting an option to keyword search your Gmail using Google’s desktop search tool, your wait is over. A 105K plug-in was…
The Search for Music
I’m a frequent user of AllMusic.com, a wonderful specialized database full of musician bios, track listings and much more. One feature (similar services are…
Yahoo To Do Images In Contextual Ads, Too
Yahoo to Test Search-Based Banner Ads from eWeek isn’t about Yahoo suddenly bringing back the the keyword-linked banner ads that ran for years on…
European Libraries Back Alternative To Google Library Project
Europe rallies against Google library from AFP notes that 19 major European libraries are backing a plan to put European books online, in reaction…
Search Forums Roundup: Apr. 29, 2005
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: AdWords Allows…
Missions & Visions & Actions
In Missions and Visions, John Battelle talks with Jeff Weiner, who I’ve introduced at conferences in the past as Yahoo’s search czar, about Yahoo…